STEPHEN STONE, RA PRESIDENT — I understand prayer to be an individual expression of submission to God's will. By that I mean: (1) prayer is a petition to God springing from the depths of the soul of each petitioner, notwithstanding the group setting in which many prayers are uttered, or the fact many prayers are led by someone representing a whole group.... (more)

ALAN KEYES — WND.com is reporting on the activities of people who have been gathering on highway and other overpasses in different parts of the country with signs advocating the impeachment of Barack Obama... (more)

October 3, 2013

FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST — In the last essay (part 7), we considered how Hegel propagated the cult of modernism. The modernists had faith in the inevitability of progress based upon impersonal forces of history. "Progress" must eventually lead to "utopia" – a utopia in which the great "oneness" of pantheism will be fully manifested all over the world... (more)

October 3, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — The Washington Post front-page photo shows Park Service employees shutting down access to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the mall. I have visited the memorial several times in the past and have never seen any Park Service employees. Where did they come from?... (more)

October 3, 2013

JUDSON PHILLIPS — Harry Reid has done it. The Senate Majority leader has shut down the government. He had the chance to have the Senate approve the House of Representatives Continuing Resolution that would have kept the government running or he even could have negotiated with the House.... (more)

October 3, 2013

ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — In a Bench Memos post, my friend Matt Franck objects to the contention in my column for last weekend that the Constitution's Origination Clause (Art. I, Sec. 7) gives the House of Representatives primacy over spending as well as taxing. Matt claims that my interpretation is bereft of historical support, a defect I'm said to camouflage by an extravagant reading of an "at best . . . ambiguous" passage in Madison's Federalist No. 58.... (more)

October 3, 2013

DAILY MAIL — As President Obama's signature health insurance overhaul effort began to enroll new participants on Monday, some states running their own insurance exchanges saw huge levels of website traffic but paltry interest in signing up.... (more)

October 3, 2013

MICHELLE MALKIN — Welcome to ObamaWreck! Americans nationwide spent Tuesday struggling with the much-hyped "Affordable Care Act" health-insurance exchanges. Server meltdowns, error messages, and security glitches plagued the federal- and state-government websites as open enrollment began... (more)

October 3, 2013

NEWSMAX — Republicans acted swiftly and decisively Wednesday afternoon amid public outrage over veterans being denied visits to U.S. monuments honoring their service.... (more)

October 3, 2013

CNSNEWS — The U.S. Treasury released its last Daily Treasury Statement for fiscal 2013 yesterday afternoon, revealing that during the presidency of Barack Obama the U.S. government debt held by the public has increased 90 percent.... (more)

October 3, 2013

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON — When -- not if -- is the only mystery about an Iranian nuclear bomb. All the warning signs are there. In 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama on two occasions went out of his way to warn the Iranians that the development of a nuclear weapon "would be a game-changing situation, not just in the Middle East, but around the world."... (more)

October 3, 2013

NEWSMAX — Former UN Ambassador John Bolton says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces an uphill battle in his quest to persuade the world not to trust Iran and its overtures toward nuclear disarmament.... (more)

October 3, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — President Obama told the United Nations General Assembly on September 24 that "the Supreme Leader [of Iran] has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons, and President Rouhani has just recently reiterated that the Islamic Republic will never develop a nuclear weapon."... (more)

October 3, 2013

WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration's credibility on intelligence suffered another blow Wednesday as the chief of the National Security Agency admitted that officials put out numbers that vastly overstated the counterterrorism successes of the government's warrantless bulk collection of all Americans' phone records.... (more)

October 2, 2013

TROY NEWMAN — Today I've become an outlaw, a dissenter, an enemy of the state. Without my consent, the U.S. Congress passed a law that forces my conscience and conviction into an inescapable corner. I do not want to be in this position. I did not ask for it. I have not even taken a single action that would put me on the wrong side of the law -- yet, somehow, here I am suddenly "breaking" it.... (more)

October 2, 2013

WARNER TODD HUSTON — The poll, released on September 30, noted that two in three of those surveyed said they "planned" to get insurance rather than pay the small fine at the end of the year. The poll further found that under half intend to take advantage of the state or federal insurance exchanges when they are finally up and running.... (more)

October 2, 2013

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR — The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, requires that individuals buy health insurance. If you don't want to buy insurance, you will have to pay a penalty -- unless you qualify for an exemption from the mandate.... (more)

October 1, 2013

WASHINGTON EXAMINER — The federal government partially shut down for the first time in 17 years at the stroke of midnight Tuesday while Congress remained deadlocked over a temporary funding bill.... (more)

October 1, 2013

BYRON YORK — Why have House Republicans pursued their effort to defund, and now to delay, Obamacare so relentlessly, even though they have almost zero chance of success in the face of a rapidly-approaching deadline for shutting down the government? And why have they done so when many in their party have warned that a shutdown would be suicidal for the GOP?... (more)

October 1, 2013

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN — "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies," said Winston Churchill. What is the truth behind the beltway lies about these crazy Republicans crashing our government?... (more)

October 1, 2013

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a bad piece of legislation, creating defective bureaucratic structures to implement policies based on dysfunctional theories... (more)

October 1, 2013

ROBERT KNIGHT — C-SPAN is more powerful than a fleet of little red wagons, but it felt a lot like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" as Sen. Ted Cruz demolished the legitimacy of Obamacare in his 21-hour, 19-minute floor speech last week.... (more)

October 1, 2013

Peaceful 'civil disobedience' planned for D.C.

LARRY KLAYMAN — The events of this week, combined with the last five years of Obama's so called "phony scandals" and other outrages designed to subvert the rule of law and our freedoms as a whole -- all in pursuit of his anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-white, socialist Islamic agenda -- are another reminder why the "Muslim in Chief" must be removed from office without further delay.... (more)

September 30, 2013

ALAN KEYES — "This Constitution, and all the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land." (U.S. Constitution, Article VI)... (more)

September 30, 2013

CLIFF KINCAID — Even before CNN falsely claimed that Iranian President Rouhani had denounced the Holocaust by name during his interview with Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria was peddling the notion that the Ayatollah of Iran, Ali Khamenei, was an intellectual... (more)

September 30, 2013

SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER — House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement Sunday after receiving word that the Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate may wait until as late as Monday afternoon to act on House-passed legislation that would prevent a government shutdown... (more)

September 30, 2013

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Mike Lee looked every bit the sidekick to Ted Cruz during the Texas senator's epic 21-hour filibuster last week -- and, indeed, throughout the effort to strip funding from the president's health-care bill. At 3:37 p.m. on Wednesday, an hour into Cruz's marathon diatribe against Obamacare, Lee appeared on the Senate floor to lend a show of support to his colleague... (more)